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Editing to Eulerian Graphs
We investigate the problem of modifying a graph into a connected graph in
which the degree of each vertex satisfies a prescribed parity constraint. Let
, and denote the operations edge addition, edge deletion and
vertex deletion respectively. For any , we define
Connected Degree Parity Editing (CDPE()) to be the problem that takes
as input a graph , an integer and a function , and asks whether can be modified into a connected
graph with for each , using
at most operations from . We prove that
1. if or , then CDPE() can be solved in polynomial
time;
2. if , then CDPE() is
NP-complete and W[1]-hard when parameterized by , even if .
Together with known results by Cai and Yang and by Cygan, Marx, Pilipczuk,
Pilipczuk and Schlotter, our results completely classify the classical and
parameterized complexity of the CDPE() problem for all . We obtain the same classification for a natural variant of the
CDPE() problem on directed graphs, where the target is a weakly connected
digraph in which the difference between the in- and out-degree of every vertex
equals a prescribed value. As an important implication of our results, we
obtain polynomial-time algorithms for the Eulerian Editing problem and its
directed variant.Comment: 33 pages. An extended abstract of this paper will appear in the
proceedings of FSTTCS 201